Kenyan employers generally like to see candidates who have a steady work history. That being said, nobody’s perfect and many people have had to leave a job early for one reason or another. This week’s job searching tip deals with methods you can use to get over an employer’s concern about leaving a job early.
You may be smart and with an impressive CV, but on average having stayed for 6 months in every position sounds very suspicious. No employer is prepared to take the risk of such a person because of the hassle they have to go through looking for someone again in 6 months.
So be careful not to hop jobs too often or too soon especially if it is not for the better and to enhance yourself, just to hop around from jobs, like, you take jobs even for the same salary, not for any reason… Then you have a rough time with interviews.
Companies would rather hire someone who stays a long time at companies because that will mean the person will stay a long time at their company. Of course this is true. It’s clear that job hopping benefits the employee, not the employer especially where training time and money was spent-if an employer has to train you for the job and you leave early, resources spent on training were wasted
If you are an expert in job hoping and you are finding it a challenge explaining yourself in an interview, assess yourself. What did you really accomplish in the mere 6 to 9 months in the job you left that you can use as your strong pillar? People job hop because they get easily bored and become impulsive. Be aware in advance of the warning signs of a necessary move before the job becomes intolerable and you are backed into a corner or feel trapped.
You don’t want to get to the boiling point where you simply can’t take it any longer and make an irrational decision. Gone are the days of lifetime employment with a corporation, but the other extreme of bouncing from job to job has its consequences. Unfortunately, sometimes those consequences set in later in a career, especially in future interviews.
You may not think your CV is spotty, but a potential employer may perceive you as someone who is not going to stay and may be unreliable.
If you’re going to leave a job early, even if you were unhappy with your boss or the work environment, give some thought to how you can leave without leaving the company high and dry. Maybe you know someone with a comparable skill set who could take the job.
If you can do something to ease the company’s burden of having to recruit a new person, this will leave them with a much better impression. It also gives you a better story to tell in interviews for new positions.
Get References; If your CV isn’t great or doesn’t paint a very positive picture of your career background, look for other things which can bolster the impression you can create with potential employers. An ideal situation would be to get references from the employers you left early.
This is where helping these former employers can help you — they’ll be more inclined to write a good reference for you if you help them out. It would be great if you could get a reference in writing (i.e. a reference letter) which you could bring with you to interviews.
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